The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa opened in 2007 with 150 low-income seventh-and-eighth graders, the school now enrolls about 300. The first senior graduation will be in 2011 (and Oprah already has her outfit picked out).

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eBay has teamed up with O, The Oprah Magazine to offer shoppers everywhere a once-in-a-lifetime chance to own a piece of pop culture history. Beginning March 1, eBay is releasing more than 200 items of clothing, shoes and accessories, straight from Oprah's spring clean out of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” closet (eBay.com/oprah-closet) giving fans everywhere a chance to step into her shoes.
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Frederique Constant is pleased to continue its sponsorship of Variety’s Power of Women events, supporting its ninth installment of the famed luncheon at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons last friday.
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